Garment hanger



'Feb. 23 1926. 1,574,065

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES D. CONEY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO STAR SERVICE HANGER CO.,

' OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

GARMENT HANGER.

Application filed July 1, 1925. Serial No. 40,754.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JAMES D. CoNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Hangers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a garment hanger and has special reference to that type of coat and trousers hanger made of a single piece of wire bent to provide a suspension hook coat shoulder supporting portions, and a transverse member from which trousers may be suspended.

I am aware of many garment hangers having transverse members but in each and every instance the trousers may slide from one side of the transverse member to the other side and eventually becomes displaced. The sliding movement of a pair of trousers on a transverse member is not a thing desired by dry cleaners and others using a large number of garment hangers, because in the delivery of pressed suits the trousers will slide to one side or other of the hanger, become wrinkled and oftentimes displaced. Then again, some wire coat hangers have a transverse member on which trousers cannot be easily placed on account of obstructing portions of the hanger.

My invention aims to provide a garment hanger with a depressed trouser supporting portion that may be made without any material expense in the construction of the hanger itself. With the hanger made of wire that is automatically bent 1n a machine that expeditiously and economically produces the hangers-it is only necessary to modify the machine to the extent of making two more bends 'in the wire blank in order to form a depressed trouser supporting portion of the hanger. These additional bends add rigidity to the transverse member of the garment hanger and aiford a distinct advantage, in preventing trousers from sliding sidewise, so that the hanger is used in preferenr to others of a similar nature.

The construction entering into the garment hanger will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed and reference will now be had to thedrawing, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of the garment hanger; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same.

The hanger is fashioned from a single piece of wire bent to provide a depressed trouser supportin portion 1, a transverse member 2, shoul er portions 3, a twisted shank 4 and a suspension hook 5.

The piece of wire is adapted to be held at the trouser supporting portion 1 while the ends of the piece of wire are bept at a right angle, as at 6, and then outwardly to form the transverse member 2. This configuration of the piece of wire will place the trouser supporting portion 1 intermediate the ends of the'ha'nger and in a plane parallel to the ends of the transverse member 2, thus forming a large unobstructed window or opening in the hanger through which the legs of a pair of trousers 7 may be placed to hang the trousers on the supporting portion 1, as shown in Fig. 2. The angular ends 6 of the supporting portion 1 will confine the trousers to such supporting portion and consequently the trousers cannot slide on to the transverse member 2 and become wrinkled in either end of the hanger.

I attach considerable importance to the fact that the garment hanger is formed from a single piece of wire which may be finished to present a neat appearance and that the depressed trousers supporting portion of the hanger adds rigidlty to the same and lends a further recognizable useto the garment hanger.

What I claim is z- 1. In a garment hanger, a single piece of wire fashioned to form shoulder portions and a suspension hook, and a transverse member connecting said shoulder portions and provided with a depressed trouser supporting portion set in from the shoulder portions so as to prevent trousers from 'lateral ly sliding in said hanger, the depressed trouser supporting portion of saidtransverse memher being disposed in a plane parallel to the plane of the remaining end portions of said transverse member and affording a large uninterrupted opening to facilitate placing the trousers on the depressed supporting 1; portion.

2. A garmenthanger made from a single 5 piece of straight wire having its ends fluent at right angles to form a trouser supporting portion, the ends of the wire being bent out Ward ly into opposed relation in a plane parallel to the trousers-supporting portion and then inwardly to form shoulder p0rtions, the ends of the wire being twisted together with one end of the wire forming a suspension hook, the general configuration of the hanger affording a, large unobstructed opening through which trousers may be placed and suspended on the trouser sup- A porting portion.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JAMES D. GONEY. 

